Mayor’s Decision to Send Migrants to Hotels in Northern NY Creates Chaos for Weddings and Legal Battles

The mayor’s decision NYEric Adams, of sending migrants to Hotels in the north of the state, due to the saturation in the city’s shelters, has not only generated legal battles but has affected the plans of white of some couples.

Sean and Nicole’s wedding will take place in a week and they had everything ready to receive relatives and friends who would travel from Ecuador, Canada, England, Ireland and Japan after booking 37 rooms at The Crossroads hotel in Orange County.

But now, days after that ceremony, they don’t know what will happen after all the reservations were canceled after the arrival of the first group of migrants sent from the city by the Administration Adams.

Sean told channel 7 of the chain ABCwho had hoped to be able to share the hotel with the migrants but were informed that The Crossroads It will not be available for the next few months.

Gary Moretti and Deanna Mifsud face the same situation with their wedding, scheduled for June 24, for which they had the more than 15 rooms they reserved in The Crossroads Hotel.

The flow of immigrants to NY since August 2022 it has caused a humanitarian and resource crisis, and saturated the city’s shelters, which had to resort to renting rooms in 120 hotels, which have also become saturated.

The city has received more than 67 thousand people, including children, the majority from Venezuela, and is providing shelter, food, and social services to more than 37,000 people.

Because of this, Adams chose to Hotels in Rockland and Orange, outside the city, running into opposition from the top officials in these counties, both Republicans, who went to court to stop the Democrat.

Tomorrow the city of Yonkers, which borders the county of The Bronxreceives dozens of migrant families, and as happened before with Rockand and Orange, their mayor complained that he was not notified of this decision in advance.

Mayor Mike Spano told ABC that about 100 migrants will be sent to the Ramada Inn where they will be for at least a year, and he assures that he found out about this on Friday from the police in his city and assured that he “did not hear anything” from Mayor Adams.

I have not spoken directly with him. mayor. I spoke to her deputy chief of staff, who apologized and said I was on her list to call,” Spano complained.

City councilors (municipal legislators) denounced that they have not been notified when they have housed migrants in the areas they represent.

while, the county Rockland and the city will meet Monday in the first audience in Court to elucidate the sending of migrants, which the county managed to stop last Thursday pending the decision of the court.

With information from EFE